Banks To Operate With Minimal Staffs During lockdown

Bhubaneswar : While non-essential state government offices will remain closed during lockdown upto July 31, banks and some other essential services have been exempted from the restrictions.

This was announced after Odisha government today partially modified its July 16 complete lockdown order.

Following services are exempted from lockdown:

Telecom and internet services including their maintenance and movement of their staff with proper identity cards.

Data and call centres.

Banks, insurance and financial institutions including service organisations to operate with not more than 25 percent manpower strength for essential banking transactions and ATM services.

Capital and debt market services as notified by the Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with bare minimum staff.

Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India and its field offices with bare minimum staff.

Departments of the state government and their sub-ordinate offices as notified by GA and PG Department.

Offices of UN Agencies with bare minimum staff.

Mining operations.

Shops dealing with fruits, fish, meat, chicken and egg between 6 am and 1 pm following Covid-19 safety protocols.

Cold storage, warehousing services and packaging units including their transportation.

Deployment of private security services.

Home delivery of IMFL/CL/OS liquor by the existing ON/OFF/OS licensees as per the prevailing guidelines of excise department